Clinton's 'Planted Questions' Flap Is Fodder for Opponents

The Democrats are now running neck and neck in Iowa's pivotal caucuses, with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton holding just a slight lead, according to the latest poll by The New York Times.

Clinton's campaign has hit another rough patch after questions were raised about the authenticity of a question asked of her during a Veterans Day town hall meeting in Iowa.

The Clinton campaign doesn't dispute the basics: Grinell College sophomore Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff was instructed by a campaign staffer to ask Clinton a very specific question about global warming.

Now the student is speaking out about what happened and giving even more fodder to Clinton opponents.

"They asked me if I would ask the senator a question. I said, 'Sure, you know,'" Gallo-Chasanoff told CNN. "He showed me in his binder, he had a piece of paper that had typed out questions on it. And the top one was planned specifically for a college student. It said 'college student.'"

More Than One 'Plant'?

A video on MSNBC shows Gallo-Chasanoff reading the question word for word, and then winking when she was done.

Fellow student Patrick Caldwell broke the story in the Grinell student newspaper.